Gathering Blue

Have you thought about what it is like to be free. What is the sense that you can not select it? It is not so terrible to think that freedom that you can not do is not so terrible, but even in today's world, some people do not even have basic human freedom. In her book "Giving and Collecting Blue" Lois Lowry shows us that there is no significance of freedom and the importance of our freedom. Kira is a two syllable or teenage girl, a person in the book "Gathering Blue", living in a small village with her mother.

Gathering Blue is a young adult social science fiction written by Lois Lowry and released in 2000. It is a companion's book to The Giver (1993) set in the same future era and the universe, followed by Messenger (2004) and Son (2012) at The Giver Quartet. Kira who is a deformed central figure of the leg is an orphan and must learn to live in a society in which a physically handicapped person often dies in the field. In this book, she began learning the art of dyeing different colors except blue, I do not know how anyone in the community makes it. She also learned more about the truth about her village and the terrible secrets they have.

Gathering Blue is the second book by Giver Quartet. It follows the girl named Kira. In Kira 's thought, her injured leg should have suffered from her exposure in the wild at birth dead, deformed, or seriously injured. Her mother, Katrina, became a widow before Kira was born and refused to give up on her, so she was relieved. Now that Katrina died of a mysterious illness, Kira is facing the judgment of the Parents Council because the disability of his leg hindered her self-sufficiency and forced the burden on society. She is worried that she will be sent to the field to die, but her extraordinary embroidery technique can save her. Her only work is to repair, maintain and eventually make the robe of the singer more beautiful, and the singer sings the history of her people once a year.